2015-03-31T22:10:23Z2003 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposalhttp://hdl.handle.net/1813/3924
Title: 2003 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal
Authors: Piper, Keith
Abstract: 'Bel-shaz-zar' will take the form of a triptych of large scale projections, each one sourced from a networked
Apple Macintosh computer.
The installation will take as its conceptual start point the Biblical legend of the 'writing on the wall' which
appeared to the Babylonian king Belshazzar heralding the imminent moment of his destruction. Using a
series of protocols developed within the programming language 'Lingo', the computers will use their
collective 'awareness' of 'real time' and 'elapsed time' to structure a complex and ever evolving series of
visual and textural video montages. These montages will through time construct a narrative which posits the
viewer in an ever shifting space between the memory of historical trauma and the imaging of futurological
catastrophe. Drawing on internal databases of manipulated imagery, sound and montaged video footage
taken from historical archive, contemporary urban space, and the 'post apocalyptic' urban spaces of popular
science fiction, the computers will 'cut and paste' sequences and juxtapose them with ongoing textural
narrative passages generated by the computers in real time.2006-12-04T19:39:34Z